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day 85 – Saddam’s execution has haunted me all day.
My TV is set to wake me in the morning; it is a more gentle way to wake up than the insipid beeping of an alarm clock which, as well as waking you, induces a coronary heart attack.
This morning I woke gently to the news that a man had been executed. At 6am Iraq time Saddam Hussein was hanged. I couldn't quite believe it had happened. I sat up and watched the continuous report on BBC news and all I could think of was that one more person had lost a life.
Saddam, from what little I know, was not a nice man. He was directly and indirectly responsible for literally millions of lost lives. His regime tortured and brutalised a nation and his legacy continues to infect what was once the centre of civilisation.
This presents me with a moral problem. I just can not condone capital punishment. It is a brutal way to carry out justice and no one, and I mean no one, deserves to die in that manner. But in taking that stance I am asking for mercy and compassion for a man that showed none to his victims. I have to admit I briefly thought that his death was a good thing but I quickly retracted that thought. In a modern society we should not execute people. Let’s face it, there is no punishment that befits genocide and mass murder and another death does little to help.
The other disturbing thing about this event is the display of the execution on TV. I remember the uproar when terrorists executed Kenneth Bigley by beheading him. They then distributed the video over the Internet. The world was outraged. Are we any different presenting Saddam’s execution? We need to take a step back and think about what we are looking at. I heard someone say “Oh the hanging is on the Internet, Can I look?” I said “Why?” The reply was slightly chilling “Oh I don’t know. It might be interesting, might be fun.” I was taken aback at the thought that someone I know well could actually see the death of another human as entertaining.
I wonder if we will ever learn.
Taliban Execution - Three Northern Alliance soldiers fire simultaneously into a Taliban soldier who had been captured while attempting to resist their advance toward Kabul, Afghanistan. A small number of hardline Taliban soldiers chose to stay on the front line and fight the Northern Alliance, and those who didn't escape were killed immediately. The man yelling in the background was encouraging the soldiers in their actions.
Series of 6 postcards illustrating the death of Edith Cavell during World War 1.
Edith Louisa Cavell (4 December 1865 – 12 October 1915) was a British nurse. She is celebrated for saving the lives of soldiers from both sides without discrimination and in helping some 200 Allied soldiers escape from German-occupied Belgium during the First World War, for which she was arrested. She was subsequently court-martialled, found guilty of treason and sentenced to death. Despite international pressure for mercy, she was shot by a German firing squad. Her execution received worldwide condemnation and extensive press coverage.
The Palace of La Mosquera, also known as the Palace of the Infante Don Luis de Borbón, is a neoclassical palace from the end of the 18th century, located in the municipality of Arenas de San Pedro, province of Ávila, Spain. It was built by the Infante Don Luis Antonio de Borbón y Farnesio, sixth son of Felipe V and brother of Carlos III who, exiled from the Madrid court after contracting a morganatic marriage with María Teresa Vallabriga, moved his residence from the Boadilla del Monte Palace in Madrid to the town of Arenas de San Pedro.
History
The prince arrived with his family in Arenas de San Pedro in 1778, and decided to settle at first in the Lletget house, then in the Old Palace, the Palace of the Ladies, in addition to carrying out the works to channel the Guisete stream.1 In 1779 he commissioned the project of a new palace to the renowned architect Ventura Rodríguez.2 The Madrid architect would supervise the completion of the project, but delegated its execution to four collaborators:3 the architect Mateo Guill, the master builder of the Infante Alfonso Regalado , and the brothers Ignacio and Domingo Tomás.3 The scale of the project and the advanced age of Don Luis meant that the project was never completed.
The eight years that the Infante lived in this Palace were the period of greatest cultural splendor in the town. The Infante, a great lover of art, history and science and considered one of the most important patrons and collectors of the kingdom, made an important contribution to national art and the development of Arenas de San Pedro, summoning distinguished European travelers and numerous artists: composers such as Luigi Boccherini, architects such as Ventura Rodríguez and painters such as Francisco de Goya, who would immortalize the magnificent surroundings of the Sierra de Gredos in his paintings. Don Luis gathered in the Arenas palace a rich, original and varied collection of paintings, prints, drawings and sculptures. A lover of history and science, he created a complete Natural History Cabinet and a splendid library, which undoubtedly must have made a great impression on visitors at the time.
The prince died in Arenas de San Pedro on August 7, 1785. The palace was emptied of all its contents between 1785 and 1796, occupied by Napoleonic troops in 1809 during the Spanish War of Independence and converted into a minor seminary between 1868 and 1869 , was sold by his heirs and destined for a seminary until 1972, a period during which it underwent important changes in its internal distribution. The palace was finally bought in 1988 by the Arenas de San Pedro City Council, which proceeded to rehabilitate and enhance the entire complex. In recent times, the palace and its surroundings have been used as an exhibition gallery,4 catwalk for fashion shows5 or as a stage for dance festivals and concerts.
Description
The building, built between 1780 and 1783, is characterized by its neoclassical layout. Following the characteristic order of palatial architecture, it presents a closed plan, articulated around an interior patio whose center is occupied by a pyramidal fountain. The plan is arranged in five bays parallel to the main façade, the central one being where the stairway and patios are located. In turn, these bays are cut by other perpendicular ones, ordering and dividing the plan into well-proportioned quadrilateral rooms, completely regular, where the axis becomes the protagonist. The façade shows the obvious traces of an unfinished building that uses characteristic materials from its surroundings such as gray granite and Tiétar sand plaster.
On the outside, the palace stands out for its elegant proportions, ordering its three levels with clearly palatial horizontal lines. The towers that rise above the roof and finish off the corners give the palace an El Escorial appearance, reminiscent of the one projected by Ventura Rodríguez in his palace in Boadilla del Monte. Initially, four towers were planned, one in each corner, but finally only two of them could be built. This sober and orderly character characterizes its exterior, where the portico stands out for its monumentality. The main entrance to the palace is through this beautiful portico of classical proportions designed by Ignacio Tomás in granite stone, conceived as a triumphal arch made up of three arches with six Doric columns and a balcony with a balustrade and which gives access to the hall. The hallway allows access to the stair space, a double-height square space covered by a vault and delimited by a perimeter archway with balconies, which is configured by its elegant proportions as one of the fundamental pieces of the palace.
The palace limits to the west with the Casa de Oficios and the stables. The Casa de Oficios, intended for the servants of the Infante, is inspired by the project designed by Ventura Rodríguez for the Post Office in Puerta del Sol in Madrid. Built in masonry and brick, initially divided into thirteen apartments, this parallelogram comprises a ground floor and a top floor. The lower floor is articulated around a central courtyard. In the basement of the House, were the stables of the palace, where a simple fountain designed by Ventura Rodríguez was also planned.
An important part of the project was made up of the gardens, whose design presented a typology close to the ornamental gardens of the Farm, planted with “broderie” flower beds, articulated around circular fountains of very elaborate typology, such as the fountain of the dolphins, in preserved part, designed by Ventura Rodríguez.
In addition to its wealth of heritage, Arenas de San Pedro is a site of tourist interest due to its famous Águila Caves, discovered in 1963 and located just six kilometres from the town.
Population: 6,454 (2018) National Statistics Institute
In the centre, the impressive Don Álvaro de Luna castle can be found, with its large keep, along with a Gothic church from the 16th century, Nuestra Señora de la Asunción, with a magnificent bell tower, and the Infante don Luis de Borbón palace.
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Kurdish emigres protest Paris murders at Turkish & French embassies : London 11.01.2013
On 11.01.2013 Kurdish emigres in London protested at the Turkish embassy and then marched to the nearby French embassy to protest about the shocking mass murder on 09.01.2013 in Paris of three female Kurdish political activists including PKK co-founder Sakine Cansiz in what French police believe to be an execution a targeted assassination. The bodies of the three women - Brussels-based Kurdistan National Congress’ (KNK) Paris representative Fidan Doan, political activist Leyla Söylemez and Kurdish Worker's Party (PKK) co-founder and Women's Movement organiser Sakine Cansız - were discovered behind several combination-locked doors in the Information Center of Kurdistan in Paris on Wednesday by friends who had been trying since the previous evening to contact the women and who had broken into the centre after discovering bloodstains on the outer doors.
Very shortly after French police were called to the scene (and with what many claim to be suspicious haste), Huseyin Celik, the deputy chairman of Turkey’s ruling party claimed that the murders were the result of “an internal feud” within the PKK. Celik did not offer any evidence to substantiate his assertion, yet also went on to suggest that the slayings were an attempt to derail the peace talks which have been taking place in the notorious high security prison on mralı Island between PKK founder Abdullah Öcalan - sentenced to death for treason against the Turkish state in 1999 but whose sentence was commuted to life imprisonment when Turkey was forced to abolish the death sentence as part of it's application to join the EU - and the Turkish government.
The PKK have waged an often violent war against the Turkish government for the last 34 years as part of their campaign to establish an autonomous Kurdish enclave in South-East Turkey. Kurds make up almost 20% of the Turkish population, yet are forbidden by law to even speak their own language and have suffered greatly under Turkish suppression. Since the insurrection began in 1978 it is estimated that over 40,000 people on both sides have lost their lives in violent actions perpetrated in this conflict, and even though the PKK has been proscribed as a terrorist organisation by the USA, the EU, NATO, Syria and others, the cause of Kurdish nationalism enjoys a huge level of support in the region. Turkish authorities have been concerned about PKK fighters entering Turkey from the autonomous Kurdish enclave in Northern Syria.
Kurdish populations are present in Turkey, Syria, Iraq and Iran, and have experienced many decades of suppression by their respective states as the Kurds attempt to loosely re-establish their traditional Kurdistan, eradicated during the Ottoman reign, and it is against this long background of armed struggle that has seen large numbers of ethnic Kurds fleeing to Europe to find sanctuary. The Kurdish people I spoke to in Haringey last night said that they no longer feel safe anywhere in Europe after this execution which they lay firmly at the door of what they describe as the "dark, ultra-nationalistic shadow government" operating behind the scenes in Turkey who are violently opposed to any form of settlement or discussion with the Kurds.
Huddled around tables in the large hall adorned with photographs of fallen comrades and a large centrepiece display of their political figurehead, Abdullah Öcalan, the Kurds were subdued and in a measured, reflective mood. During the day it had been established by French police that the women had all been shot in the head through the throat using weapons with suppressors (silncers), and it is initially thought that there was possibly more than one gunman. There was no sign of forced entry to the building, so it seems that they were known to at least one of the women - two of whom were slaughtered as they were organising suitcases for their journeys back to Belgium and Germany.
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„In der Höll“ is a field name that is also registered by the Federal Office of Topography and means: In Hell. A historic place of execution in a copse south of the new Castle Rheineck. This castle is inhabited today and was built around 1895 on the ruins of an earlier castle from 1395. The stones of the ruin were used in Rheineck to build houses. But there is still a second castle in Rheineck from the 12th century. From this old Castle Rheineck there is a ruin today called „Burgstock“. These two castles are 270 m apart and were connected once to each other in terms of fortification. There is also rumored of an underground connection, but it has never been confirmed. I was looking for it, but the construction of the now inhabited castle has destroyed all evidence of this. Switzerland, May 6, 2020.
Douggy Carpool: hey how r u doin
Kaycee Nightfire: ok
Douggy Carpool: wat u doin out there
Kaycee Nightfire: shooting a bear
Guess I'm not going to Disney World anytime soon .....
Knight Elkcrown's squire won a fair battle. But no blood was to be spilled, said the bailiff, and the losing squire's life got spared.
Art of the lived experiment
Exhibition at the Bluecoat, Liverpool, 8 November 2014 until 11 January 2015
An old penny arcade machine in pretty bad taste at North Somerset Museum. You put in money... and the guy gets executed.
Exécution sans jugement sous les rois Maures de Grenade (Execution without judgement under the Moorish Kings of Grenada)
1870
By Henri Regnault (1843 - 1871)
Oil on canvas, H. 3.02 ; L. 1.46 m
musée d'Orsay, Paris, France
Regnault’s grand canvas still unsettles many visitors to the Musée d’Orsay. Whereas other nearby paintings in the museum have long since lost their avant-garde capacity to disturb viewers’ expectations, Regnault’s canvas has retained its shock value. One major reason for this response is not so much the bloody scene in the foreground as the viewer’s position vis-à-vis this macabre subject. As Linda Nochlin has pointed out, when the canvas is hung at the correct height, the decapitated corpse rests at the viewer’s own eye level.
My entry for the Vignette 2012 Contest Historic theme. This vignette displays the execution of Murdock. Murdock has stolen food from a towns food reserves that it needed to help bring the folk through the winter. This is a serious crime and is punished by "The Hunger Chain". The thief is chained so that he can almost reach the food and water in front of him. Almost. He will die a slow and terrible death. The Guard ensures that nobody tries to free or kill him. This will teach people not to steal from the food reserves!
f.y.i.: this is a rebuild of an earlier version.
The Great Terror
In 1935, the NKVD was ordered to expel suspected counter-revolutionaries, particularly those who had been aristocrats, landlords, or businesspeople before the October Revolution.[362] In the early months of 1935, over 11,000 people were expelled from Leningrad, to live in isolated rural areas.[362] In 1936, Nikolai Yezhov became head of the NKVD and oversaw this intensification.[396] Stalin instigated this intensification of repression, which was rooted in his own psychological compulsions and the logic of the system he had created, one which prioritised security above other considerations.[397]
Stalin orchestrated the arrest of many former opponents in the Communist Party: denounced as Western-backed mercenaries, many were imprisoned or exiled internally.
By late 1937, all remnants of collective leadership were gone from the Politburo, which was controlled entirely by Stalin.[402] There were mass expulsions from the party,[403] with Stalin commanding foreign communist parties to also purge anti-Stalinist elements.[404] During the 1930s and 1940s, NKVD groups assassinated defectors and opponents abroad;[405] in August 1940, Trotsky was assassinated in Mexico, eliminating the last of Stalin's opponents among the former Party leadership.[406] In May, this was followed by the arrest of most members of the military Supreme Command and mass arrests throughout the military, often on fabricated charges.[407] These purges replaced most of the party's old guard with younger officials who did not remember a time before Stalin's leadership and who were regarded as more personally loyal to him.[408] Party functionaries readily carried out their commands and sought to ingratiate themselves with Stalin to avoid becoming the victim of the purge.[409] Such functionaries often carried out a greater number of arrests and executions than their quotas set by Stalin's central government.[410]
Repressions further intensified in December 1936 and remained at a high level until November 1938, a period known as the Great Purge.[397] By the latter part of 1937, the purges had moved beyond the party and were affecting the wider population.[411] In July 1937, the Politburo ordered a purge of "anti-Soviet elements" in society, affecting Bolsheviks who had opposed Stalin, former Mensheviks and Socialist Revolutionaries, priests, former soldiers in the White Army, and common criminals.[412] That month, Stalin and Yezhov signed Order No. 00447, listing 268,950 people for arrest, of whom 75,950 were executed.[413] He also initiated "national operations", the ethnic cleansing of non-Soviet ethnic groups—among them Poles, Germans, Latvians, Finns, Greeks, Koreans, and Chinese—through internal or external exile.[414] During these years, approximately 1.6 million people were arrested.[415] 700,000 were shot, and an unknown number died under NKVD torture.[415][416]
Stalin initiated all of the key decisions during the Terror, personally directing many of its operations and taking an interest in the details of their implementation.[417] His motives in doing so have been much debated by historians.[415] His personal writings from the period were—according to Khlevniuk—"unusually convoluted and incoherent", filled with claims about conspiracies and enemies encircling him.[418] He was particularly concerned at the success that right-wing forces had in overthrowing the leftist Spanish government,[419] worried that domestic anti-Stalinist elements would become a fifth column in the event of a future war with Japan and Germany.[420] The Great Terror ended when Yezhov was removed as the head of the NKVD, to be replaced by Lavrentiy Beria,[421] a man totally devoted to Stalin.[422] Yezhov was arrested in April 1939 and executed in 1940.[423] The Terror had damaged the Soviet Union's reputation abroad, particularly among previously sympathetic leftists,[424] and as the Terror wound down, so Stalin sought to deflect responsibility away from himself.[425] He later claimed that the Terror's "excesses" and "violations of law" were Yezhov's fault
Plaque: BILLY THE KID'S ESCAPE.
The county had just purchased this building and had yet to construct a jail, so prisoners were held upstairs. The only access to the second floor was this stairway. Two weeks before the execution the Kid killed his two guards, Deputy J.W. Bell and U.S. Marshall Robert Olinger, and escaped. According to Sheriff Garrett, who was out of town at the time, Deputy Bell accompanied the Kid to the outhouse in back of the building while Marshall Olinger had the other county prisoners across the street at the Wortley Hotel for lunch. Upon their return the Kid managed to get ahead of Bell, grab the pistol from a room used as an armory on the second floor, and shot Bell on the stairway to your right.
Garrett said that the Kid's bullet hit the south wall of the stairway, glanced off, went through the deputy, and buried itself in the wall. Marshall Olinger heard the shot, ran over to the courthouse, and was shot dead by the Kid.
• William H. Bonney (1859-1881), born William Henry McCarty, Jr., better known as Billy the Kid, imprisoned here, 1881, for murder of Sheriff William J. Brady (1829-1878) in the Lincoln County War (1878-79) • Lincoln, NM in Wikipedia • About Billy the Kid -Ms. Marcelle Brothers • Billy the Kid facts summary • Facebook page • gravesites • The one thing Billy the Kid never got in life, was Justice —Brian Keith O'Hara • Pinterest
• Lincoln State Monument designated by state of NM, 1937 • now Old Lincoln Courthouse Museum • Lincoln Historic District National Register #66000477, 1960
archive photos: courthouse c.1900 • courthouse looking NW • Billy the Kid room in courthouse • birds-eye view of Lincoln • clerk's office
Building Marker: Built 1874, as place of business and residence of L.G. Murphy & Co., a dominant factor in area in 1870s and headquarters of the Murphy faction during Lincoln County War. Firm failed, and store became county government and judicial center for 33 years.
March 13, 1879, Billy the Kid writes to Governor Lew Wallace for the first time.
To his Excellency the Governor,
General Lew Wallace
Dear Sir, I have heard that You will give one thousand $ dollars for my body which as I can understand it means alive as a witness. I know it is as a witness against those that murdered Mr. Chapman. if it was so as that I could appear at Court I could give the desired information, but I have indictments against me for things that happened in the late Lincoln County War and am afraid to give up because my Enemies would Kill me. the day Mr. Chapman was murdered I was in Lincoln, at the request of good Citizens to meet Mr. J.J. Dolan to meet as Friends, so as to be able to lay aside our arms and go to Work. I was present when Mr. Chapman was murdered and know who did it and if it were not for those indictments I would have made it clear before now. if it is in your power to Annully those indictments I hope you will do so so as to give me a chance to explain. Please send me an awnser telling me what you can do You can send awnser by bearer I have no wish to fight any more indeed I have not raised an arm since your proclamation. As to my character I refer to any of the citizens, for the majority of them are my friends and have been helping me all they could. I am called Kid Antrim but Antrim is my stepfathers name.
Waiting for an answer I remain your Obedeint Servant
W.H. Bonney
Execution Rocks Lighthouse is an active lighthouse, located in the Long Island Sound, protecting mariners traveling those waters.
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The Rebels Return Wood Sculptures. Wat Tyler Park, Basildon, Essex.
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Streetart: Mohsen Shekari / Islamic Republic = Execution
Berlin-Kreuzberg, fotografiert am 13.12.2022
Am 9. Dezember 2022 wurde der junge iranische Demonstrant Mohsen Shekari hingerichtet. Ein iranisches Gericht hatte ihn wegen Teilnahme an einer Demonstration gegen das Regime zum Tode verurteilt.
Seither folgten weitere Hinrichtungen durch das iranische Terror-Regime.
JIN JIYAN AZADÎ
Zan Zendegi Azadi
Frau Leben Freiheit
Woman Life Freedom
© Bernd Sauer-Diete
This Glacial erratic in Jordbro has an interesting history. For centuries it was used as a place of execution. It has seen many decapitations and hangings. The last person to die here was Anders Gustav Pettersson, who murdered his boss, Fredrik Jaedren, the brutal owner of the old estate Näringsberg. I recently read a book about about the murder story.
I shot this with The Nifty Fifty. It is three photos stitched together.
This is a grim reminder of our past. Located in a glass case inside the church of St Sepulchre Without, is the Newgate Prison execution bell. The handbell would be rung outside the cell of the condemned prisioner, by the church clerk, at midnight on the eve of his execution. The great bell of the church would be rung when an execution was in progress. The former Newgate prison Gallows were nearby to the church. The main church bells are also one of those featured in the children's rhyme 'Oranges and Lemons' as they are the Bells of Old Bailey.
IT was an ancient practice, on the night preceding the execution of condemned criminals, for the bellman of the parish of St Sepulchre to go under Newgate and, ringing his bell, to repeat the following, as a piece of friendly advice to the unhappy wretches under sentence of death:--
"You prisoners that are within, who for wickedness and sin, after many mercies shown you, are now appointed to die tomorrow in the forenoon, give ear and understand that in the morning the greatest bell of St Sepulchre’s shall toll for you in form and manner of a passing bell, to the end that all godly people, hearing that bell and knowing that it is for your going to your deaths, may be stirred up heartily to pray to God to bestow His grace upon you while you live. I beseech you for Jesus Christ’s sake to keep this night in watching and prayer for the salvation of your own souls, while there is yet time for mercy, as knowing tomorrow you must appear before the judgement seat of your Creator, there to give an account of all things done in this life and to suffer eternal torments for your sins committed against Him, unless upon your hearty and unfeigned repentance you find mercy through the merits, death and passion of your only Mediator and Advocate, Jesus Christ, who now sits at the right hand of God to make intercession for as many of you as penitently return to Him."
The following extract from Stowe’s Survey of London, p. 125 of the quarto edition printed in 1618, will prove that the above verses ought to have been repeated by a clergyman instead of a bellman:--
"Robert Dow, Citizen and Merchant Taylor, of London, gave to the parish church of St Sepulchre's, the sum of 50L. That after the several sessions of London, when the prisoners remain in the gaol, as condemned men to death, expecting execution on the morning following; the clerk (that is, the parson) of the church should come in the night time, and likewise early in the morning, to the window of the prison where they lie, and there ringing certain tolls with a hand-bell, appointed for the purpose, he doth afterwards (in most Christian manner) put them in mind of their present condition, and ensuing execution, desiring them to be prepared therefor as they ought to be. When they are in the cart, and brought before the wall of the church, there he standeth ready with the same bell, and after certain tolls rehearseth an appointed prayer, desiring all the people there present to pray for them. The beadle also of Merchant Taylors Hall hath an honest stipend allowed to see that this is duly done."
executing someone's bug at the office because she stole away someone else's three-in-one instant coffee!
Commander's log, date 05.03.2735:
My execution came and went. I had been 'cuffed again, and a hood had been put over my head. I was ready to die. I figured I could at least die with the satisfactory knowledge that I hadn't given away any DDF secrets. But then I heard some screams. They were the screams of the guards, as Jim was decapitating them. He rescued me, and I was quite astounded to see him. After all, I had believed him to be dead. But he explained the situation to me. He had actually come across a DM underwater patrol in the pond. It was the DM underwater patrol's blood I had seen, not Jim's. But he had gotten caught on a rock down there, so it was a while before he surfaced. He found a lone DM soldier and killed him to get weapons. Then he gathered intel and found me. And what a relief that was! Now, Jim and I shall return to base to resume our normal activities.
Jeremy Croup, Commander of the DDF, signing out.
Looking at three fists in memorial park "Bubanj" built to commemorate the execution of the citizens of Nis and South Serbia in World War II
Manequinns depicting executioner and his victim.
This is the part of basement of Palanok castle (Munkacsvár) in Mukachevo, which basement was used for such activities until mid-19th century, because Munkacsvár, then situated on Austro-Hungarian territory, was turned into all-European political prison after fall and demolition of the Bastille in 1789. Obviously, for the time passed all the blood was washed away. Taken with Sigma EF 12-24/4.5-5.6 EX HSM, bounce flash used © Ignat Solovey